Barnabas Fund launches Manifesto for Persecuted Christians

In the run-up to the UK General Election, Barnabas Fund has this week launched 'A Manifesto for Persecuted Christians' and is calling on all political parties to make specific commitments to help persecuted Christians in their election manifestos.

The manifesto, which is endorsed by both church leaders and peers from across the political spectrum, calls for specific actions by the next government to tackle genocide in the Middle East.

It warns that without specific urgent actions there is a very real danger that that entire Christian communities will have ceased to exist in large parts of the Middle East by the time of the next UK general election in 2022. A pre-release copy of the manifesto, which contains seven specific recommendations to the next UK government, was sent to all political parties a week ago to give them opportunity to respond before their election manifestos are published. In the 2015 UK general election five parties included manifesto commitments related to religious persecution, with two specifically mentioning Christians.